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dùn to stop / to pause / to arrange / to lay out / to kowtow / to stamp (one's foot) / at once / classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal
kòu to knock / to kowtow
叩头 kòu tóu to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground) / also written 磕頭|磕头[ke1 tou2]
平身 píng shēn (old) to stand up (after kowtowing) / You may rise.
跪拜 guì bài to kowtow / to kneel and worship
叩首 kòu shǒu to kowtow / also written 磕頭|磕头[ke1 tou2]
叩拜 kòu bài to bow in salute; to kowtow
顿首 dùn shǒu kowtow
磕头 tóu to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground)
叩见 kòu jiàn to kowtow in salute
三跪九叩 sān guì jiǔ kòu to kneel three times and kowtow nine times (formal etiquette on meeting the emperor)
响头 xiǎng tóu to bump one's head / to kowtow with head-banging on the ground
跪叩 guì kòu to kowtow
交拜 jiāo bài to bow to one another / to kneel and kowtow to one another / formal kowtow as part of traditional wedding ceremony
磕头如捣蒜 tóu dǎo suàn lit. to kowtow like grinding garlic (idiom) / fig. to pound the ground with one's head
稽颡 sǎng to kowtow (touch the forehead to the floor)


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